Burnt Offering /
Burnt Offering is Joan Metelerkamp's seventh collection of poems. The title comes from a poem in a cycle that embodies the labours of the medieval alchemists - heating and burning, transformation of passionate intensity, the search for an enduring element. In the process malignant doubt is burn...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athlone, South Africa :
Modjaji Books,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Points on Poems; Penelope; Alchemical Incantations; Burning; Burnt offering; Dissolving in its own water; Sea; Down to earth; Incarnate; Rock; Rock; The Hill; Where are you; Bury the dead; Sorting it out; Marry Maree; Come together; Intact; Believing; Body of work; Came back wanting; Twee Rivieren; Crossing the Crocodile; Notes and Acknowledgements; Back Cover